A Dodgers Owner Gave $2 Million to a Pro-Trump PAC

Todd Boehly, who holds a 20% stake in the team, has also sent $23,100 to four Pennsylvania House Republicans.

Todd Boehly, a co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, gave $2 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc. between December 2024 and 2025. The total sits in Federal Election Commission records, and it was first reported by LA Public Press on September 2, 2026.

The stakes in Los Angeles are already on paper. Congress narrowly passed Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act after he returned to office, ending food stamp benefits and cutting Medi-Cal for hundreds of thousands of Angelenos, the outlet reported. A Republican-held Congress would also mean thinner oversight of ICE and tighter federal money for the city.

The Pennsylvania checks, line by line

In April, Boehly sent $23,100 to Battleground PA, a joint-fundraising committee backing Pennsylvania Republicans. It was split four ways.

The committees of Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie, Rob Bresnahan and Scott Perry each took $3,500 for their primaries — the ceiling an individual can give a candidate's PAC per election. Each committee also got $2,275 for the general. Those eight payments add up to the full $23,100. Mackenzie, Bresnahan and Perry are all in tight races, the outlet reported.

Boehly's giving isn't new, and it wasn't always one-sided: ahead of the 2020 election he wrote checks to Democrats and Republicans both, per FEC data. He ran Guggenheim Partners as president before founding Eldridge Industries in 2015, and the business arm of that Miami-based insurance holding company gave $1 million to Trump's second inauguration fund.

A Dodgers spokesperson received a list of questions from LA Public Press about Boehly's donations and the ICE raids and wouldn't comment. Eldridge Industries didn't respond to the outlet's request for comment.

What fans are asking for

Jose Madera, director of the Pasadena Community Job Center and a lifelong fan, told the outlet the midterms matter locally because of what Congress funds.

“These midterm elections are very important because it can shape how much funding ICE gets and how much funding Homeland Security gets,” Madera said.

Madera started a petition and letter-writing campaign in May urging the team to skip the White House, and it drew more than 23,000 letters. He says nobody from the team ever got back to him. Most of the roster went anyway this year; Mookie Betts, Kiké Hernandez and Edgardo Henriquez did not.

Charity Chandler-Cole, executive director of the advocacy group LA Voice, told LA Public Press she respects Boehly's freedom to give as an individual and still holds him to the neighborhood the money comes from.

“It's just a huge slap in the face to say, Hey, I'm going to take the dollars from the community where my funding comes from and donate it to an administration that's going to harm them,” Chandler-Cole said.

Boehly holds a 20% stake in the Dodgers, according to The Athletic, and co-invests with Mark Walter, who has drawn criticism over financial ties to The GEO Group, an operator of ICE detention centers, and Palantir Technologies, which supplies data ICE uses to track undocumented immigrants, the outlet reported. Both men sold their controlling stake in the Los Angeles Lakers in early August to former Disney chief executive Bob Iger and the venture capitalist Joshua Kushner.

The boycotts haven't shown up in the ledger. The team grossed an estimated $1.1 billion in 2025, per a Sportico report, and last month it paid out a $1.1 million pledge, made in June 2025, to groups supporting immigrant families.

Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie, Bresnahan and Perry are all on the ballot in November.

Source: lapublicpress.org, retrieved September 7, 2026.